Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: This report is written to inform the participants in a new collaborative project to improve how accessible texts (i.e., texts in formats that meet the needs of users with disabilities)1 are created, managed, and stored. It provides a concise, up-to-date summary of the two key legal pressures that bear on the creation and sharing of accessible texts: the civil rights laws that require creation and distribution of accessible texts by IHEs to ensure equitable access to information, and the copyright laws that are sometimes (as we will show) misperceived as barriers to that effort. Concern that these legal regimes may be in tension contributes to inefficiency in making and sharing accessible texts. Reconciling the mandates of copyright and civil rights clears the way for dramatic improvements in service that both vindicate civil rights and serve the First Amendment values that animate copyright.
Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)
Author: Brandon Butler
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2962942470